falar
Portuguese, noun/faˈla(ʁ)/
falar is spelled F-A-L-A-R (5 letters) and appears 575 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 158th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Falar is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a cant, dialect or regional language” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does falar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to speak; to talk (to say words out loud)
Para de falar.
- 2
to communicate by any means
Já não nos falamos.
- 3
Brazilto say something
Para de falar bobagens.
- 4
to talk
Estou falando com você
- 5
Brazilto tell (to convey by speech)
Vou falar para você.
- 6
to talk
- 7
to speak ill
- 8
to speak (to be able to communicate in a language)
Eu falo português.
noun
- 1
masculinea cant, dialect or regional language
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. emitir sons com significado coerente segundo uma convenção linguística qualquer 2. ter a capacidade de se expressar em um idioma: 3. usar o dom da fala 4. namorar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of falar
- falo first-person present singular
- falei first-person preterite singular
- falado participle past
- falares infinitive second-person singular
- falarmos first-person infinitive plural
- falardes infinitive plural second-person
- falarem infinitive plural third-person
- falando gerund
- falados masculine participle past
- falada feminine participle past
- faladas feminine participle past
- falas indicative present second-person
- fala indicative present singular
- falamos first-person indicative plural
- falais indicative plural present
- falam indicative plural present
- falava first-person imperfect indicative
- falavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce falar?
- Brazil /faˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [faˈla(h)]
- /faˈla(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to falar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is falar in Portuguese?
falar appears 575 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).